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I say this every time this topic comes up, which seems to be often, so I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but y'all need to read 'Freedom Evolves' by Dan
by mjgoins 16y ago
I say this every time this topic comes up, which seems to be often, so I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but y'all need to read 'Freedom Evolves' by Dan Dennett, followed up by his longer more important work, 'Consciousness Explained.'
You might not agree with his conclusions, as they're fairly radical, but it answers the question of the original post.
- superk 16y agoSince you've read both books would you mind just summing up the jist of it.
- mjgoins 16y agoYes, the gist of both books is "There is no mysterious stuff out there, we don't need God or even physics to explain the mind, it's all just computation happening in your brain. Both consciousness and free will are ways of describing some of the stuff that your brain does." He's essentially a Functionalist. But he makes his arguments convincing. The convincing-ness cannot be summed up more briefly than he does in his books.